Cara Lee Wade: Fossil Poetry

Cara Lee Wade uses the camera-less lumen process to create works that reference the symbiotic relationship between nature and humans. With Fossil Poetry, Wade’s images strike a balance of visual beauty and rhyme. Using traditional black-and-white paper, she transforms organic matter into shapes and colors that seem to explode off the page.

Due to the fragile, light-sensitive nature of the medium, Wade scans and prints these images onto archival paper to ensure their vibrancy.

Wade writes of her work:

“Wild plants choose the space in which they reside; they have memory, and they learn. Domesticated plants grow and thrive based on the care and attention they receive. Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer quantifies plants as ‘animated, living beings and as living beings they breathe, dance, and preen.’ These images explore how a plant’s sense [of] space and place directly enhanced my experience with place.”